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Professor Frank Tompa has been awarded an honourary degree by Halifax, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University.

Henry Shi, a 3A Computer Science student, has been awarded both a co-op student of the year award from the University of Waterloo and one of two national awards from the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education.

Doug Stinson, a professor with the School of Computer Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and internationally renowned scholar in the fields of cryptography, security, and combinatorics, has been named University Professor. This fantastic honour is the third to be bestowed on a faculty member from the School of Computer Science.

First-year Waterloo Computer Science student Celeste Anderson added another accolade to her glowing resume of accomplishments in the world of math, computer science, and gaming by earning the ultimate title of King as the first-place winner of the popular reality-tv series, “King of the Nerds.” Competing in challenges that required mathematical skills, logic, and problem solvin

Raouf Boutaba, Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC-ICI). Boutaba adds this fellowship to an impressive list of accolades having been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just over a year ago. 

Ondrej Lhotak, Associate Professor with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been named an Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher by the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Lhotak joins Associate Professor Ian Goldberg (2010) and Professor Bin Ma (2009) in a growing list of distinguished faculty members who have won this researcher prize.

By Beth Gallagher

Communications and Public Affairs

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Yuying Li looks deeply into the unpredictable and sometimes catastrophic events that haunt investors.

While her expertise is managing risk, the University of Waterloo computer science professor specializes in how to avoid huge losses on the stock market when random events hit unexpectedly.